The Denmark Government on February 4, 2021 approved plans to construct first artificial energy island in the North Sea. It has been termed as the world’s first energy island.
- The planned island, which will be located 80 kilometers off Denmark’s west coast, will initially be 120,000 square meters in size, bigger than 18 standard football fields.
- When built, the artificial island will supply both clean power to homes and green hydrogen for use in shipping, aviation, industry and heavy transport.
- The surrounding wind turbines will have a capacity of at least 3 gigawatts, ramping up to 10 gigawatts over time.
- A smaller energy island is already being planned off Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, to the east of mainland Denmark.
- The project was cleared in the backdrop of the European Union plan to transform the bloc’s electricity supply which aims to rely mostly on renewable energy within a decade while increasing offshore wind energy capacity roughly 25-fold by mid-century.
(Source: DW)
